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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Darebin is home to one of the largest, most diverse communities in Victoria. With a population of 153,563, 138 languages spoken, diversity spans culture, religion, socio-economic background, employment status, occupation, and housing needs. Darebin City Council is a future focused organisation, a leader in Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice, working alongside communities and stakeholders. The Council is deeply committed to building a strong, contemporary organisation to transform Darebin for a new era, to be a great place to work, delivering great services, for a great community. The Senior Organisational Development Advisor role is a key enabler of this commitment through design, leadership and delivery of key organisational frameworks, programs, systems and processes to transform organisational culture and capability to be responsive to the diverse and changing needs of employees and the community.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Internal secondment to support critical project management milestone deliverables. Key Responsibilities and Duties:• Project manage the development of the 20 year Community Vision and 4 year Council Plan (incorporating Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plan), in compliance with the Local Government Act and relevant regulations or directives issued by Ministers or Departments.• Coordinate through regular reports to the Manager Governance and Corporate Strategy and the Key Plans Project Management Group on the progress of the project – development of the Community Vision and Council Plan (incorporating Municipal Health and Wellbeing Plan).• Provide support to coordinate external consultants to deliver deliberative community engagement activities• Work within a coordinated approach that aligns to the central community engagement plan for key plans in development – 10 year Financial Plan, 10 year Asset Management Plan, 4 year Workforce Plan, 4 year Budget, 4 year Revenue and Rating Plan, Corporate Plan and Service Planning.• Coordinate activities and initiatives that focus on improving alignment between strategy, policy, planning and resources.• Maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders and relevant external provider in support of quality and responsive project coordination.

Global

Past client work:International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Asia Pacific Regional Office (APRO), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Delivered a successful US Government Humanitarian Aid Program (USAID) funding proposal (including design, monitoring and evaluation framework) on behalf of IFRC and American Red Cross which has supported organisational development (OD) programming in 9 countries across Asia Pacific.

Melbourne, Australia

- Develop framework, principles and ways of working in the area of organisational development across the international programs - Provide technical advice to onshore and offshore program managers and staff to ensure programs embody good practice approaches to supporting partners achieve their organisational development outcomes- Institutional relationship management within Australia, and regionally across Asia and Pacific with Red Cross Red Crescent Movement Partners, donors, and external stakeholders- Explore partnership opportunities for institutional strengthening initiatives- Support and contribute to research and analysis to support innovative and quality programming- Foster and promote innovation and learning to enhance program and partner outcomes- Promote and contribute to whole-of-organisational learning around program quality, effectiveness and accountability in the field of organisational development

Australia, Asia

Manage Australian Red Cross support programs in countries of responsibility (2014-15: Philippines; 2012-14: Mongolia, Maldives; 2007-12: Cambodia & Laos).Sectors and thematic areas: organisational development, disaster management, health, water and sanitation, land mine risk reduction, disability inclusion, child protection, gender.Lead the development of country strategies, security planning, contribute to departmental/organisation strategies and change management processes.Coordination and facilitation of regional training programs with Red Cross Red Crescent partners across Asia region.Program design, monitoring and evaluation.Financial and budget management.Communication and resource mobilisation.Recruit, develop and support local and expatriate staff, contractors, volunteers.Develop, manage and strengthen Australian Red Cross institutional relationships (including Red Cross Movement partners, Australian Government, private sector, donors, sector stakeholders).

Cambodia

Member of Country Management Team, providing support to Head of Sub-office to manage and supervise 18 staff (program, logistics, admin/finance, drivers) and warehouses to deliver food assistance programs across six provinces in three sectors (Education, Health & Nutrition, Disaster Management).Coordinated community-based Food For Work (FFW) program for Siem Reap Sub-office (SRP SO).Monitored and evaluated SRP SO activities to provide inputs to program planning and implementation, improve operational efficiency and aid effectiveness, develop & implement country-wide M&E standard. Capacity development and training of SRP SO staff and counterpart staff (government and NGO) in Monitoring & Evaluation, program methodologies, document management, WFP reporting. Conducted food security assessments of vulnerable households following natural disasters and implemented targeted food assistance programs. Reviewed monitoring findings and liaised with relevant stakeholders to implement corrective actions as required.Chaired Advocacy Taskforce to develop advocacy strategy and action plan for WFP Cambodia. Coordinated donor and stakeholder visits inspect WFP projects for programme review, advocacy and compliance.

Australia

Managed and implemented key business development projects – domestically & offshore. Provided strategic business and market analysis to deliver optimal outcomes for internal and external stakeholders, including managing business planning process for global Trading Group businesses.Project managed AWB Asia office relocation and expansion (Beijing, Singapore), including developing and managing project budget, authorising payments, working with internal and external stakeholders, managing international contractors, commercial office lease negotiations, company incorporation, business registration, staff relocation, office design and fit-out.Managed collaborative grains industry research into China wheat market (in conjunction with Australian National University and Grains Development & Research Corporation) and developed China, Indonesia and Asia strategies together with regional account managers and product development team.

Australia

Provided regional/country-level business and market analysis relating to International Sales & Marketing (IS&M) performance, covering four regions (Asia, Middle East, Europe, Africa) and 40 countries.Provided business analysis & project management support to develop new business development initiatives.Evaluated new business development proposals, including collaborative research with key customers (eg. Indonesia, Singapore, Egypt, Kuwait), coordinated development of strategic business and marketing plansIdentified, developed and implemented process improvements relating to IS&M functionTogether with a process modeller, designed, developed and implemented improved performance benchmarking system for IS&MManaged audit & corporate risk review and compliance processes for IS&MManaged IS&M policies & procedures review and implementation of database Coordinated Total Quality Assurance international customer surveyFacilitator/team leader for AWB Limited Young Leaders Conference – 4 day industry leadership conference involving 80 young grain growers (18-35 years) from across Australia

Master Of Design Futures, Design

Masters In East And Southeast Asian Studies, Business Administration And Management

Activities and Societies: Masters thesis: Indonesian rice distribution and marketing

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.) And Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

Pre-University Course In Economics And Politics

Activities and Societies: Wolfson College

Victorian Certificate Of Education

Activities and Societies: Secondary school exchange program, Royal Chitralada School, Bangkok, Thailand.